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Re: PowerBook G4



On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 11:14:18PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-01-03 at 19:35, Mark Brown wrote:

> > As it stands, it's pretty darn fast with just the framebuffer driver -
> > unless I try to run something that uses OpenGL I have completely failed
> > to notice that it's unaccelerated.

> You obviously don't move windows opaquely or scroll their contents. ;)
> Of course, depending on what you used before, you won't notice before
> using the accelerated driver.

I do do things like that - it's snappy enough for me not to notice.
Perhaps with different programs, though.

> Absolutely. When I'll become the proud owner of such a machine at last,
> I won't be able to live without 3D acceleration for a long time - all
> those games are just no fun without. So I'm rather confident that it'll

I always found 3D acceleration made remarkably little difference to my
enjoyment of nethack :-) .

-- 
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